MINUTES DASB SENATE MEETING Wednesday, May 19, 2010 … · Amir Pourshafiee moved to strike the word “explore” from A3 from SSC and change to “provide”. Levon Minassian seconded

Approved Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 DASB Senate Minutes Page 1 of 8

MINUTES DASB SENATE MEETING Wednesday, May 19, 2010

3:30pm Student Council Chambers

Call to Order Bobo Teo called the meeting to order at 3:45 pm Roll Call

Name Present Absent Late Left Early Khalid Ali X Omar Ali X - 3:49 pm X – 6:27 pm Jorj Cheko X Jack Chuang X Justin Chou X Marlo Custodio X -3:49 pm Lena Ghamrawi X Lucas Ho X Keith Hubbard X – 4:01 pm Scarlett Kim X Eric Li X Levon Minassian X Amir Pourshafiee X -3:49 pm Yang Qiu X Ji Sin X Wayne Spalding X Sharon Su X Bobo Teo X Theresa Thian X- 4:10 pm John Yan X

Junior Senators Name Present Absent Late Left Early Natasha Asar X Maw Aung X Mariam Azhar X Melanie Dovan X Thoa Kim Hoang X Amie Ngan X Thomasina Russaw X

Guests: Victoria Nguyen, Anmol Mirakhur, Nevin Serina, Ali Masood, So Choi, Alex Mendiola, Pamela Jara, Quyen Vu, Cindy Luu, Timothy Chun, Balaram Fedchenko, Jade Flader, Brenda Kristie, Denny Jeon, Alison Chan, Gloria Cheung, Suzuki Chan, Sean Pham, Tevita Tapavalu, Ismail Desouki, Matt Clarke, Salim Benchekroun, Adam Coquia. Approval of Minutes Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Jorj Cheko moved to approve the minutes of Wednesday, May 12, 2010 as amended.



Scarlett Kim seconded. Motion to approve the minutes of Wednesday, May 12, 2010 as amended was passed by consensus. Public Comments Please note: Members of the public are limited to two minutes. The Senate cannot take action or respond to items during public comments. Burning Issues Consent Calendar Business

1. DISCUSSION/ACTION – FIRST VOTE Title: DASB Bylaws This item is to approve the revised DASB Bylaws. Presenter: Omar Ali Time Limit: 30 minutes Omar Ali presented the item. Levon Minassian moved to adopt the proposed amendment. Scarlett Kim seconded. Discussion occurred. Sharon Su moved to end discussion. Jorj Cheko seconded. Motion to end discussion was not passed with 5 Yes to 7 No votes. Discussion of main motion resumed.

Bobo Teo moved to amend to strike #2 and #3 from the Student Rights and Campus Relations section. Jorj Cheko seconded

Discussion occurred. Discussion was ended by chair.

Motion to strike #2 and #3 from the Student Rights and Campus Relations section was approved by consensus

Discussion of main motion resumed.

Amir Pourshafiee moved to strike the word “explore” from A3 from SSC and change to “provide”. Levon Minassian seconded. Discussion occurred.

Theresa Thian moved to amend the amendment to not strike “explore” and add the word “and” between “explore”, “provide”.

Discussion occurred. Khalid Ali moved to end discussion. Jorj Cheko seconded

Motion to amend the amendment to not strike “explore” and add the word “and” between “explore”, “provide” was not passed with 2 Yes to 6 No votes. Khalid Ali moved to end discussion.

Discussion of Amir Pourshafiee’s motion resumed.

Levon Minassian moved to end discussion.



Scarlett Kim seconded. Motion to end discussion was passed by consensus. Motion to strike the word “explore” from A3 from SSC and change to “provide” was passed by consensus.

Discussion of main motion resumed Marlo Custodio moved to add the word “and market” for A3. Keith Hubbard seconded. Discussion occurred. Khalid Ali moved to end discussion. Jorj Cheko seconded. Motion to end discussion was passed by consensus.

Motion to add the word “and market” for A3 was not passed with 4 Yes to 7 No votes.

Discussion of main motion resumed. Omar moved to add an item B that is a copy of Diversity and Events ‘s item B to both sections of this amendment. Levon Minassian seconded. Discussion occurred.

Discussion was ended by chair. Motion to add an item B that is a copy of Diversity and Events ‘s item B to both sections of this amendment was passed by consensus.

Discussion of main motion resumed. Jorj Cheko moved to end discussion. Khalid Ali seconded Motion to end discussion was passed by consensus. There was request for roll call vote to approve the motion. Roll Call Vote

Name Yes No Abstain Khalid Ali X Omar Ali X Jorj Cheko X Jack Chuang Justin Chou X Marlo Custodio X Lena Ghamrawi Lucas Ho X Keith Hubbard X Scarlett Kim X Eric Li Levon Minassian X Amir Pourshafiee X Yang Qiu Ji Sin Wayne Spalding Sharon Su Bobo Teo X Theresa Thian X John Yan X



Main motion was not approved with 5 Yes to 8 No votes. Justin Chou moved to strike the name “Student Services Rights and Relations” and replace with “Student Rights and Services” Scarlett Kim seconded. Discussion occurred Scarlett Kim moved to end discussion. John Yan seconded. Motion to end discussion was passed by consensus. Motion to strike the name “Student Services Rights and Relations” and replace with “Student Rights and Services” was passed by consensus. Lucas Ho moved to add a Section #11 Environmental Sustainability Committee in the bylaws. Justin Chou seconded. Discussion occurred.

Bobo Teo moved to amend the proposal to add “B. 1. The ES committee shall fulfill these objectives by having their members attend other committee meetings and report back to the ES Committee” Marlo Custodio seconded Discussion occurred

Omar Ali moved to end discussion. Scarlett Kim seconded. Motion to end discussion was passed with 5 Yes to 3 No votes.

Motion to amend the proposal to add “B. 1. The ES committee shall fulfill these objectives by having their members attend other committee meetings and report back to the ES Committee” was passed by consensus.

Levon Minassian moved to amend the main amendment to include

“C. The DASB Senate delegates authority to DASB ES to take action on behalf of the DASB Senate to fulfill its own objectives with the following restrictions:

1. The DASB Senate reserves the right to create an Ad-Hoc Committee to address any specific environmental issues 2. The DASB Senate must endorse or otherwise officially support an organization before DASB ES may sponsor or market an event to promote that organization”

Bobo Teo seconded. Discussion occurred Bobo Teo moved to end Scarlett Kim seconded Motion to end discussion was passed by consensus.

Motion to include “C. The DASB Senate delegates authority to DASB ES to take action on behalf of the DASB Senate to fulfill its own objectives with the following restrictions:

1. The DASB Senate reserves the right to create an Ad-Hoc Committee to address any specific environmental issues



2. The DASB Senate must endorse or otherwise officially support an organization before DASB ES may sponsor or market an event to promote that organization” was passed by consensus. Discussion of main motion resumed. John Yan moved to end discussion Jorj Cheko seconded Motion to end discussion was not passed with 5 Yes to 7 No votes. Discussion resumed. Amir Pourshafiee moved to end discussion. Levon Minassian seconded. Motion to end discussion was not passed with 3 Yes to 4 No votes. Discussion resumed Jorj Cheko moved to end discussion. Scarlett Kim seconded Motion to end discussion was passed with 8 Yes to 3 No votes.

Amir Pourshafiee moved to have a 10-minute recess Justin Chou seconded.] Motion to have a 10 minutes recess was passed with 10 Yes to 3 No votes. Roll Call

Name Yes No Khalid Ali X Omar Ali X Jorj Cheko X Jack Chuang X Justin Chou X Marlo Custodio X Lena Ghamrawi X Lucas Ho X Keith Hubbard X Scarlett Kim X Eric Li X Levon Minassian X Amir Pourshafiee X Yang Qiu X Ji Sin X Wayne Spalding X Sharon Su X Bobo Teo X Theresa Thian X John Yan X

Omar Ali moved to approve the perfected bylaws as amended for second vote John Yan seconded



Discussion occurred. Amir Pourshafiee moved to have the position of Chair of Students Rights and Services to come after the Chair of Budget and Finance John Yan seconded Discussion occurred Discussion was ended by consent of the body Motion to have the position of Chair of Students Rights and Services to come after the Chair of Budget and Finance was passed by consensus. Discussion of main motion resumed. Jorj Cheko moved to end discussion. Omar Ali seconded. Motion to end discussion was passed by consensus. Motion to approve perfected bylaws as amended for second vote was passed by unanimous consent.

2. INFORMATION Title: DASB Elections Code This item is to inform the senate of the changes in the DASB Elections Code. Presenter: Omar Ali Time Limit: 30 minutes Wayne Spalding presented the item by distributing copies of the Code.

3. INFORMATION/DISCUSSION/ACTION Title: DASB Projects This item is to update the Senate on the progress of the AB540, T.A. program, food vouchers, Eco-passes and the next steps for the groups. Presenter: Marlo Custodio Time Limit: 15 minutes Bobo Teo presented the item. Discussion occurred.

4. INFORMATION/DISCUSSION/ACTION Title: DASB Dinner Ceremony This item is to update the Senate on the progress of the DASB Dinner Ceremony. Presenter: Chair Time Limit: 15 minutes Marlo Custodio presented the item.

5. DISCUSSION/ACTION – FIRST VOTE Title: Budget transfer for Women’s Badminton. This item is to approve transfer of $300 from Men’s Soccer (Account # 41-57235) to Women’s Badminton (Account # 41-57260) Presenter: Mark Landefeld Time Limit: 10 minutes Scarlett Kim presented the item.



Bobo Teo moved to approve transfer of $300 from Men’s Soccer (Account # 41-57235) to Women’s Badminton (Account # 41-57260) Khalid Ali seconded Discussion occurred. Bobo Teo moved to end discussion. Scarlett Kim seconded. Motion to end discussion was passed by consensus. Roll Call Vote

Name Yes No Abstain Khalid Ali X Omar Ali Jorj Cheko X Jack Chuang Justin Chou Marlo Custodio Lena Ghamrawi Lucas Ho Keith Hubbard X Scarlett Kim X Eric Li X Levon Minassian X Amir Pourshafiee X Yang Qiu Ji Sin X Wayne Spalding X Sharon Su Bobo Teo X Theresa Thian X John Yan X

Motion to approve transfer of $300 from Men’s Soccer (Account # 41-57235) to Women’s Badminton (Account # 41-57260) was passed with 10 Yes to 1 No votes. Informational Reports

External Committees 1. Levon Minassian – Justin and I went to Academic Senate to talk about TA program.

We are going to have an agenda item for next week’s meetings. If anyone is interested please come and hang out.

2. Bobo Teo– There was no ICC meeting today but they had a Financial Meeting. If u know any officer who has not attended the meeting, they would get on probation. College council meeting is next week and if anyone is interested in attending please come over.

3. Amir Pourshafiee – Most of the clubs turned in blue forms which have the names of the Club Officers.



Internal Committees 1. Amir Pourshafiee – Jack Chuang is working on a discount design. I spoke with

career center and they said they are under staffed but are looking to create some sort of job positions. They are looking forward on working with us.

2. Scarlett Kim – BnF – We spoke about waiver of ICC and we disapproved it. We thought that we needed to follow the codes and bylaws. We talked about bike rental program, which was presented by Keith Hubbard.

3. Wayne Spalding– Admin met yesterday and we are working on completing the committee codes now.

Announcements

1. Keith Hubbard/Thomasina Russaw – ES has one more event coming up on June 2nd .A celebrity chef who is a native from Oakland is going to come on campus. He has worked with many Environmental Sustainability Activists and he is going to show us some African American cuisine. We are excited to have him to come here This is his first experience with a Community College. The time is 12:30 to 2 pm Fireside Room and his name is Bryant Terry.

2. Scarlett Kim – This Saturday, we have De Anza College Open House from 8 am to 2 pm. We need to be there so I request people to please come and volunteer. The election results were released. Congratulations everyone who was elected.

3. Marlo Custodio – Exec Council met on Sunday. I want to appreciate Keith, Wayne, Thomasina, Justin etc. and they deserve a round of applause. I encourage other execs to come to meetings.

4. Dennis Shannakian – June 5th is the orientation and June 9th is the swearing in of all the new Senators. Please make sure all Senators attend the orientation and the swearing in order to get in. It is highly important and mandatory.

Introduction/Approval of Prospective Senators/Junior Senators

1. Nevin Serina 2. Gloria Cheung 3. Tevita Tapavalu 4. Ismail Desouki 5. Salim Benchekroun

Adjournment Marlo Custodio adjourned the meeting at 6:50 pm. Submitted by, Harshawardhan Lanjewar DASB Secretary Approved Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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MINUTES DASB SENATE MEETING Wednesday, May 19, 2010 … · Amir Pourshafiee moved to strike the word “explore” from A3 from SSC and change to “provide”. Levon Minassian seconded